The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.

Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists nor the great scientists, neither the great statesmen nor the great sport figures, but those who master a hard lot with their heads held high.

It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future; and how we undermine it, today.

I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.

Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.

The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.